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Adrian Roberts's avatar

One difference between old-fashioned RP and modern 'educated' English is that in the latter the word law is often pronounced as lore, e.g. lore-abiding, lore enforcement. Which changes the meaning in a mildly amusing way.

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TomC's avatar

Some Chinese guy over a decade ago wrote an essay” Why are Chinese s boring?” He makes exactly the same argument.

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